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FALCON. 



reign of William and Mary, prohibiting, for a certain period of the 

 year, from taking any salmon peal, or salmon kind, by hawk, 

 racks, gins, &c. 



A. — Falco arundinaceiis, Lid. Orn. i. p. 18. /3. Gmel. Lin. i. 263. 5'. G. Gmel. It. ii. 163, 

 Daud. Orn. ii. p. 69. 



This variety is said to have an ash-coloured cere ; the body grey 

 above, and whitish beneath ; an even tail, and pale legs. 



Inhabits Siberia, and makes the nest among the reeds. The 

 Osprey is found in regions far distant from each other, being frequent 

 in Kamtschatka, and parts still more northward ; migrates in \s inter 

 towards tlie south*; is met with also at the Cape of Good Hopej; 

 said to frequent the rock of Gibraltar J at all times, and to breed 

 there, continually flying round the rock, where there is deep water, 

 rarely coming to land, except in the breeding season. 



B. — Falco oarolinensis, Tnd. Orn. i. p IS. y. Gm. Lin. i. p. 2C3. Daud. Orn. ii. p. 69. B. 

 Falco piscator, Bris. i. .361, 362. Id. 8vo. 105. Raii Si/n. p. 19, Klein. Av. p. 52. 



Biif. i. 142. 

 L'Aigle pecheur, VieiUot amer. i. p. 29. pi. 4. 



Fishing Hawk, Cates. Car. i. pi. 2. Amer. Orn. v, p. 13. pi. 37. f. 1. 

 Carolina Osprey, Gen. Syn. i. 46. A. Arct. Zool. ii. A'o. 91. Bart. Trav. 286. 



Tliis bird is somewhat smaller than the European species, being- 

 only 22in. in length; the extent of wings, 5ft. Sin. ; the bill black; 

 cere blue ; irides yellow ; plumage above brown, forehead and 

 crown, sides round the eye, and all beneath white, with a yellowish 

 tinge ; forehead marked with a few streaks of black ; through the 

 eye in some specimens, and in others beginning Ijehind it, a brown 



* Found about Baikal— common at Astrachan. — Dec. russ. 2. 142. 

 t Kolben. 



* Rev. J. White's MS. Notes. 



